. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . nd inachievement until at Nashville, in the concluding period ofthe war, he annihilated a much greater army than that ofZollicoffer on the field of battle in midwinter! It was in December, 1861, that the Nineteenth wentfrom Elizabethtown to Camp John Quincy Adams, atBacon Creek, Kentucky. The weather was rainy andsevere, it was our first winter under canvas, and many weretaken ill. February 10, 1862, Buells army commenced tomove
. The Nineteenth Illinois; a memoir of a regiment of volunteer infantry famous in the Civil War of fifty years ago for its drill, bravery, and distinguished services . nd inachievement until at Nashville, in the concluding period ofthe war, he annihilated a much greater army than that ofZollicoffer on the field of battle in midwinter! It was in December, 1861, that the Nineteenth wentfrom Elizabethtown to Camp John Quincy Adams, atBacon Creek, Kentucky. The weather was rainy andsevere, it was our first winter under canvas, and many weretaken ill. February 10, 1862, Buells army commenced tomove Southward, Mitchels Division in advance, and theNineteenth Illinois leading. The high railroad bridgeacross Green River at Munfordville had no railing oi- pro-tection on the sides, but it was safely passed over with theteams by moonlight, and the scene was extremely jiicturescpieto all of us in the marching column. The country throughwhich we marched was cavernous, and the surface had manybowl-like depressions in w^hich w^as, generally, consideiablewatei. Oil their retreat the Confederates drove their dis-abled and broken-down horses and mules into these ponds. Gen. George H. Thomas. The Nineteenth Illinois 161 and shot them. But, as springs and streams were scarcein that region, we had no choice except to use the waterfrom the befouled ponds.* Mitchels Division consistedof the Eighth, Ninth, and Seventeenth Brigades; the firstwas commanded by Colonel Turchin, and it included theNineteenth and Twenty-fourth Illinois, Thirty-seventhIndiana, and Eighteenth Ohio regiments. Experience gavesomething of a veteran character to this Brigade and war-ranted its assignment to the van in the movement onBowling Green. The Nineteenth led the brigade, and weshall never forget that hurried march and what we accom-plished. At last, so it seemed to us then, we were about toreceive our baptism in battle, and the hope of expectation,the pride of believing in ourselves as a fighting regiment,and t
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